When creating the proposal for Kentucky River Foothills Development Council, Inc. (KRFDC), the workforce structure and culture was considered by a “collaborate process of assessments. It includes the key agency and community stakeholders, agency board of directors, staff, and most importantly, the clients” (Kentucky River Foothills Development Council, Inc., 2014, p. 3). The relationship between the agency’s workforce culture and its ability to provide comprehensive service delivery involves looking at community strengths and weaknesses. Also, the client needs assessment surveys, and the key informant surveys (Kentucky River Foothills Development Council, Inc., 2014, p. 3). Nevertheless, the goal of the surveys was designed to see what kind of programs or services is needed and what the participants believe is the cause of poverty in their neighborhoods. Furthermore, the issues that citizens are currently experiencing with crime, child care, substance abuse, healthcare, and employment. To address retention and program delivery, some changes to personnel need …show more content…
In addition, they can put up flyers throughout their community, place post cards on peoples’ cars, and on library and hospital bulletin boards. However, the recruiter must take caution and use the targeted recruiting approach instead of the warm body approach. The warm body approach is any person breathing and willing can be signed on as a volunteer for a short period of time, whereas the targeted approach selects individuals based on skills, interest, and cultural groups (Worth, 2017, p. 248). The latter will alter the current state of the agency and quality of services because KRFDC will retain candidates whose work and attitude matches their own and provide a positive work environment that will be inviting to the
This paper focuses on an in depth community assessment of the past, present, and future of Shelby, Mississippi. Shelby was once a banner cotton center of Bolivar County. Shelby residents were once referred to as some of the most hospitable and happy people in the state. Shelby, Mississippi was also considered as one of the wealthiest towns per capita of the entire Mississippi Delta. Throughout the years, Shelby has changed from being a place of prosperity to a place needing revitalization. Many businesses have opened and closed in Shelby. Community development in Shelby would allow the town to compete with other small towns in the Mississippi Delta.
* A review of three different recruitment methods that can be used, and when it is appropriate to use them.
Windshield survey is short and simple community assessment. They involve the collection of data that will help define the community, the trends, stability and changes that will affect the health of the community (Stanlope and Lancaster, 2014) Windshield survey is conducted by driving around the community assessing for its various characteristics such as boundaries, population, housing, environment, public and health services and many more. This paper will reflect on finding of community assessment performed through windshield survey that took place around neighborhood of Smith K Elementary School on Tuesday, 2/16/2016 at 1300.
I will be evaluating ForKids located in Norfolk, Virginia. This agency serves homeless families in their community. I called the agency and asked for their permission to evaluate them. I let them know the evaluation is for a class assignment, and that I might have to conduct observations and interviews later on. They were more than happy to help me.
According to Deborah Bailey, some of the ways these programs are getting funding currently are non-traditional. Funding is coming from the private sector because the public system is not completely on board with these programs at the present time and not as willing to experiment. The article ends speaking about how everyone is effected positively with these programs so far (Bailey p.28). These programs have started the conversation and will help build support for a universal model used by all communities just as the
For our group project, the five of us worked together to understand and analyze the Latino/a community which exists within the West Colfax neighborhood in Denver, Colorado. In order to conduct this analysis and create our recommendations, we came together as an organization and sought to understand the Latino/a culture through a community practice lens. To understand our organization, I will reflect upon our work through a critical theory for community change lens to help understand how we approached our work, a group story-telling modality to create an idea of the type of change we would seek to effect with our information, and a power cube analysis to understand the dynamics of power within our organization.
Collaboration among organization members and community stakeholders is very important, we must begin to study and understand nonprofits not merely as organizations housed within four walls but as catalysts that work within, and change, entire systems. The most effective of these groups employ a strategy of leverage, using government, business, the public, and other nonprofits as forces for good, helping them deliver even greater social change than they could possibly achieve alone (Crutchfield, 2012). There is also an understanding that community partnerships and assistance from caring individuals will be of a great benefit to the organization and the young men they serve. The different chapters in the organization are funded through member dues, grants and contributions from corporations, foundations, individuals and combined federal
Homelessness is a problem in many communities across the United States. It is particularly sad when one sees women and children that are homeless. The Cornerstone Rescue Mission Women and Children Home in Rapid City, South Dakota addresses this need in this particular community. They serve pregnant women, single women, Veteran women, girls under the age of 18 with their mother, and boys under the age of 16 with their mother. A community assessment was completed on this population to identify strengths and their particular needs; interventions were then done based on these needs.
However, the Kansas Health Institute (2015) along with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Kansas Health Foundation in the development of an action plan, the Kansas Turning Point project, to address the health disparities in Kansas. The action plan addresses the important factors of (1). Encourage better and more consistent data, (2). Monitor health conditions, (3). Develop minority-targeted health programs, (4). Improve the workforce, (5). Establish an office of minority health, (6). Build accountability, (7). Support communities (Kansas Health Institute,
To make clear, the age and gender cardiovascular mortality rates, Bluegrass East has a higher rate than Bluegrass West; to justify this example the direct age and gender adjustment of cardiovascular mortality for Bluegrass East and Bluegrass West. The anticipated quantity of occupants in Bluegrass West remains 1,019,150, with an entire figure of occupants in Bluegrass West and Bluegrass East in the United States remains 280,000,000:1,019,150 / 280,000,000 = .00364 x 100,000 = 364 per every 100,000 occupants. The foreseeable number of occupants in Bluegrass East is 1,017,650 the compute number of inhabitants in Bluegrass West and Bluegrass East in the United States remain 280,000,000; the estimation justifies 343 per every 100,000 occupants
In America, rural communities main focuses is on the home, school and community. This differs from their urban counterparts who places their focus on other aspects of life, such as career. Economic developments throughout rural communities come from promoting involvement throughout the community. However, as children get older, they tend to be drawned by the ever increasing economic opportunities that exists in urban areas. Human services play a vital role in ensuring that rural families have the resources to support the availability of housing, income supports, health, food assistance and other critical services to help the families. Boarded up store fronts, and vacated houses are the familiar signs of distress in one locality after another.
The agency I am doing my internship at is SEK-CAP CHOICES Head Start here in Pittsburg, Kansas. I am following a family service worker who works with families to reach their individual potential for self-sufficiency. In this paper I will talk about the history, the structure and support, direct services, and cultural awareness of SEK-CAP CHOICES.
A lesson that I would hope to bring with me, if I was a designer of a CBPR program within a marginalized community, would be the importance of collaboration between marginalized community members and the CBPR program team members. Collaboration between CBPR program team members and members of the marginalized community may prevent conflict, hesitation, and/or resistance when attempting to develop policies or procedures; implement practices; or perform follow-up or review processes. This lesson would be extremely beneficial when attempting to perform a CBPR program or study that has the potential to encounter issues with racism or class discrimination; such as, the cultural interaction issues described by Gordon-Burns and Walker (2015). Within
Theoretically, community needs assessments are a great way to identify gaps within communities and improving the life of individuals within a target group. If there is a collaboration of all three components of the community needs assessment model, Assessment, Dissemination and
This paper serves as an overview and reflection of the community assessment assignment process for the Chinatown presentation team with the community issue of gentrification. There will be an analysis of the team’s performance in regards to strengths and opportunities for growth as well as an outlining how roles and responsibilities were formed including collaboration and communication. Further, since our group presented last, there is an inclusion of the positive aspects of our colleague’s presentations and some suggestions for revision if we were to present again. Additionally, there is personal analysis of my role within the team, areas of personal opportunity for growth, and my role within our group. The end of the reflection paper provides an opportunity for potential application of skills in future social work practice and how I will use the principles of community assessment in future practice. Overall, the process of collaborating with colleagues and the intricacies of assessing a community have prepared me for micro and macro level social work practice in communities of any size.